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A2A Explained: How Agent-to-Agent Communication Differs from MCP
MCP answers "what can I call?" A2A answers "who can I hand this to?" Different questions, different failure modes.
Read tutorialArchitectures and protocols for coordinating multiple agents, delegated tasks, shared state, communication, and dependencies.
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MCP answers "what can I call?" A2A answers "who can I hand this to?" Different questions, different failure modes.
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A fan-out graph looks fast on the whiteboard. In production it stalls because one branch is slow, one branch fails silently, and the synthesis step merges…
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Two projects both advertise "open source, model-agnostic, multi-channel, MCP support." A builder picks one, ships it, and discovers the real difference the…
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The demo works. Then you add a second worker, a shared artifact store, and a verifier, and the system starts producing results nobody can attribute,…
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